Once the most prolific and highest- paid indigent defense attorney in San Antonio, a former lawyer who forged three judges’ signatures on forms for attorney fee payments, was sentenced on April 21 to 10 years in state jail and a $10,000 fine.

Hilda Valadez is in the Bexar County Jail preparing to enter the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to serve her sentence, said Patrick Ballantyne, the Bexar County assistant criminal district attorney who prosecuted the case.

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